Wow congrats. That is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

Pics dude!

This just sounds way too good to be true IMHO, no HF for 50 miles ????? and a Sable walks out of all things, now somethings are just damn near impossible but not 100%. Show some pics for your fellow THF members, where was this shot at ?????

Not sure how to put pics on THF

you can email them to me Im at work and will put them up as soon as they get here.

Someone PM me an email address and I will send you some pics

Come on man...show us the picture...seeing is believing...I cant wait!!!

Glad you found him. Having killed them in Africa and really having to hunt hard for them, killing one in Texas free range is probably a one in a billion.

Well here it is and its damn sure a sable lol,

how long was its horns, for me to buy that animal alive for a stocker it would cost about 5K. You got your self one hell of a freebee and I would be looking and searching for a cape to do a shoulder mount on that dude allthough the cape is almost impossible to find you may be able to find one.

Damn dude congrats. That's awesome.

Very nice Shawn.....check Taxidermy.com for a cape.

I am doing a European mount this is the good side the other side the cheek is missing

Congrats on the FREE sable, even though you ruined a once in a life time shoulder mount. At least you'll have a Euro.

I could not measure it but there where 17 rings ???

Well I'll be damned!!! That could very well be the first free-range Sable EVER killed in Texas....(at least I've never heard of one)

You need to go buy a lottery ticket brother!!

Well.....he's not huge, but I'd say he's somewhere around 28"-30". Like Jeremy said....he's a $5,000+ animal live.

I put him about the same Wade, I ahve him at 28". damn sure bad [censored] for free and on my dream hunt list.

Wow! All I can say is "WOW!"

I notice a lot of brown behind the horn above the ear. I haven't seen that many sable on the hoof, and even fewer roan - so this is a question for the guys with more first hand experience - but could this be a roan?

That would make it even rarer find. I have heard a story from a guy in Rockspring that is friends with a taxy down there - supposedly he shot a free range sable on a huge LF ranch in west or southwest Texas.

Somebody, somewhere lost a nice expensive animal off their ranch and Chief Shawn definitely has himself a trophy, whatever the size. Once-in-many-lifetimes dude, Congrats!

Definitely not a Roan....Sable males that aren't fully mature, as well as females, have brown (chestnut) behind their ears and on the backs of their heads.

.....plus Roan have slightly different facial markings.

Yeah John it could be a Roan easy, they are very simular in size and facial markings but this one has the more red tinting to the back of its head like most sable do and the roan is a grayer brownish tint behihnd its head and comes down between theyre eyes usually and for the most part. Allthough Texas winters and weather can change color tints in most exotic coats I just have a even harder time putting a Roan out in free range but hell who whould guess a sable would either LOL.

Yeah the free-range thing has me blown away too - especially for that neck of the woods.

I know that in south texas, where the ranches are large, and the fencing easily gets washed out, there are a LOT of free range escapees. I have seen all sorts of stuff - but never a sable - but just about everything else that is remotely common. Saw a group of scimitar grazing an field with LF. I've seen a blesok once - and a wildebeest once - and I swear I thought I saw a hartebeest, but I can't be sure.

I guess it's possible that a sable could make it all the way from south texas, but more likely it is an escapee from some place much closer - but who anywhere close has sable? I can't think of anyone.

And how did he get out? Was it break in the fencing? Did he hop a fence that wasn't high enough? Or did someone just plain let him out? I know that some ranchers opened their fences when the scimitar mess was going on. But a sable?

This is just an incredible story.